Why has Qantas such a good safety record

[lakeland27]

well ? was Abbotts feigned outrage justified or was he deflecting in an attempt to salvage what he can out of the situation ?

are the australian maintenance crews good or is abbott right in implying someone else can do better ?.. is he un-Australian ?

[boris1gary]

Missed abbotts show of outrage, shame but i have heard some of what i have posted below, somewhere...as for being un australian, not a term i use, can think of a few but they are not allowed.

http://www.cpa.org.au/guardian/2014/1629/02-editorial.html

The neo-liberal rear guard will argue that the Qantas Sale Act of 1992 ties the airline’s hands in the battle with wholly foreign owned Virgin; there’s government red-tape and meddling in the operation of the otherwise perfect market system. Fewer and fewer people are listening to these voices. Realities are pressing in. Who will provide services in regional Australia if private corporations can’t turn a satisfactory profit? And what does it say about the sovereignty of the country if we can’t point to a majority Australian owned national carrier? What happens to the engineering skills base of the country if all aircraft maintenance is shunted off to low-wage centres?

The truth is that these bigger picture issues are of no interest to corporate investors. It’s all about profits. No stone is left unturned or corner left uncut in that cause. Wages will always be a battle ground and a freeze has already been moved by Qantas management ahead of enterprise bargaining negotiations. Unions have given notice that they will fight and they are absolutely correct in taking that stance. A defensive attitude on the part of workers in the industry would encourage airlines to press on with plans to increase the numbers of international crews working on lower wages – so low as to be unliveable in Australia.

[debra9275 · Accepted solution]

the Ausssie maintenance crews are the best in the business

[lakeland27]

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@debra9275 wrote:

the Ausssie maintenance crews are the best in the business

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 there is no doubt about that, the very best . an airline that hasn't lost a passenger. it isn't just that, a place as large as this island needs the expertise of crews like them and the people they train. sending their jobs o'seas is more than just a loss of the jobs themselves.. its the loss of any self-sufficiency in this area at all.   hockey asked the same question of the former govt in opposition

[lakeland27]

the un-australian term is a bit of a dig, a dig at the flag draping ms bishop tends to use as a defence.

[monman12]

"the Ausssie maintenance crews are the best in the business"  Interesting comment, but as an engineer and a retired senior pilot,  a little more information is called for other than political kneejerks. please!

"And what does it say about the sovereignty of the country if we can't point to a majority Australian owned national carrier? What happens to the engineering skills base of the country if all aircraft maintenance is shunted off to low-wage centres?"

Oh please "national carrier" today is passé. Airlines fly the same routes, the same aircraft,  use the same airports,  licences are internationally recognised ,  en-route maintenance is handled under contract, all are answerable to ICAO, aircrew interchange, and Qantas  will have about1/2 of its maintenance and all of its 747's conducted OS.

P007"  i have heard some of what i have posted below, somewhere." 

Do the Communist Party of Australia broadcast,  or just provide handy C&P 'manifestos'  material?.

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@lakeland27 wrote:

well ? was Abbotts feigned outrage justified or was he deflecting in an attempt to salvage what he can out of the situation ?

are the australian maintenance crews good or is abbott right in implying someone else can do better ?.. is he un-Australian ?

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Why is Joyce treated as a sacred one?

He seems to be beyond reproach.  

Some people who make such bad decisions about the company they're in charge of would have been axed already but Joyce is immune.

[freakiness]

Who's P007?

[lakeland27]

so you can disprove that ? 

[lakeland27]

where did i say national carrier ? that's off the mark, its not the point i'm making,  i didn't plagiarise a newspaper or anyone. else.